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Fire rescue team saves a parrot and a deer.

On an eventful Wednesday, the Hamm fire department was called upon not once, but twice for animal rescue. They had to save a deer that was at risk of drowning by a canal's edge and help rescue an escaped parrot perched high in a tree.

SymClub
May 17, 2024
2 min read
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An escaped parrot had made itself at home in the crown of a birch tree - and couldn't get down...
An escaped parrot had made itself at home in the crown of a birch tree - and couldn't get down again

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Two animals required assistance. - Fire rescue team saves a parrot and a deer.

Early in the morning, around 6:30 AM, the city's animal rescue team at the fire department received a distressing call. Passersby had reported that a deer was trapped in the waters of Dattel-Hamm Canal (NRW). Due to the surrounding sheet piling, the deer couldn't access land, putting its life at risk.

The team immediately dispatched a water rescue unit from the fire department. They used a boat to save the exhausted roe buck from its watery prison.

"Time for a quick break on land, and then it's back to its natural habitat - the fields and meadows," commented a spokesperson from the fire department.

Completely soaked and exhausted, the roebuck lies on land after the water rescue

Next save: a feathered friend

The emergency services had barely a moment's rest when they were inactive no longer. A parrot was in desperate need of assistance - it had fled its home and was now stranded on the roof of a three-story house.

Rescuers from the Hamm (NRW) fire department used a boat to free the animal from its predicament

Before the firefighters could arrive at the scene, the bird had flown away yet again.

A few hours later, the parrot turned up in a tree. One of the emergency responders, accompanied by the parrot's owner and a second parrot as a distraction tactic, made their way up the turntable ladder.

Using a decoy, a second parrot, a firefighter climbed up to the treetop with the turntable ladder to rescue the trapped bird

With a little persuasion and enticed by the second parrot, the yellow feathered creature was caught by its rightful owner and whisked back to its secure cage.

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